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We’re so misinformed by politicians & our government because they’re all in the pocket of big Pharma, insurance companies & the AMA! Universal, single payer healthcare for all Americans, subsidized quality childcare so moms can work without worrying, living wages and Social Security—all of it now!

Agree. Yet 70% of repubs STILL approve of the job Trump is doing. Welcome to American politics

republicans & the corporate media since reagan have moved the Overton Window so far right in the US that there literally is no "left" in the national dialogue. And all they had to do is constantly lie about center-right Democrats, eg, Obama, B. Clinton, being radical left. Americans are SUPER STUPID

When I ask conservative goobers what’s radical about the left, they respond by calling me the “C” word and say something nasty about my mother.

When facts, truth, and reality get in the way of Big Boy profits Trump simply removes the devices and claims whatever benefits the rich and powerful ... financially: www.newser.com/story/390258...

Republican politicians love to describe the GOP as the party of 'common sense' and 'fiscal responsibility.' Both proven time after time to be demonstrably untrue.

Not anymore. Sadly. Canada is busy grinding down the public health care system - so we can have American style health care

Ain’t THAT the cat’s pajamas ‼️‼️‼️💯 Good morning Hopeful !!! 😃💙🦋💯

The US had two major leftist parties, but FDR saw them as a threat to his political power and had the party leaders thrown in prison on bogus charges around the same time he threw children into concentration camps based on race. Then he did everything he could to erase the American left from history

Yup, being knowledgeable, respectful and caring isn't a bad thing, it should be viewed the nornal thing with everyone being seen as a degenerate arsehole.

I respond: And if you are the opposite of “woke”, what does that make you?

Quality of life issues are not political.

Only by the MAGA nuttters. 💙🔥😆

The problem is that neo-liberalism, originally a radical right idea, has become accepted by people who call themselves “centrists” and even some who call themselves “liberals”. This fucked up everyone’s political compass, and not only in the US.

We'll keep the red flag flying.

well they are common sense - unfortunately there is a lack of common sense in the USA😇

You mean like having free and fair elections in a representative democracy. Crazy ideas these days from the Left.

Have you been to the UK lately?

Totally agree!

100%!

And many used to be considered fine right here at home, eg a basic safety net. SNAP benefits. After-school programs....

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Oh yeah--that lady automated her account. I remember her discussing that a few months back. I recall having a conversation w/ someone over how the unsupervised automation was going to start pushing some problematic stuff.

Absolutely.

Yep - www.lemkininstitute.com/red-flag-ale...

that's because we have somehow become ruled by a right-wing fascist government.

There has certainly been a very marked move away from The Good News in the US church. It has all gone very Old Testament. It's all hellfire and Deuteronomy. It's interesting that the Church of England, a more New Testament focussed church, tends to have a much more progressive following.

Or Progressive!

The far right in France supported including the right to abortion access in the french constitution. www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

Very true, can confirm

Things Are So Far Out Of Whack In This Country (Thanks Again Faux News) That Republican President Eisenhower Was Left Of Today's Democrat Party...

Selfishness and lack of consideration sadly seems to be increasingly pervasive in 'western' society.

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Exactly. Thus the total failure of the Clinton administration to address the underlying Reagan era economic policies that decimated the middle class and then the later Biden DOJ allowing the Trump 1.0 criminals to regroup after retreating to their gated estates with their $$ for four years.

When being woke began an insult. We were in trouble.

The vision of government is written in the first sentence of the Constitution. Labels are are losing debate. Issues are what is important. Relate them to the first sentence of the Constitution and you have a winner.

"Politics is like driving, D to go forward and R to go backwards" has gone about as far as it can. The car is on a cliff with the rear end sticking out over the edge.

By most definitions Jesus was a radical leftist, “Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” Not religious but I feel the bible makes his views quite clear

I'm radical as all get out. According to the GOP clowns, everything that is good is radical and their sick bullshit is what's right. They truly have no idea what living the good life is.

When they call us "radical" we should point to the "provide for the general welfare" clause in the Constitution and say "you mean following the directions of the Founders?"

Right on

This is why people should travel to other countries early and often and, ideally, have at least one medical emergency while there.

Right?! True left means the state stealing all personal property and the means of production, and then deciding who gets what. Socializing fundamental services used to be a point of pride. It meant a nation was wealthy and strong enough to keep their citizens fed, homed, educated, and healthy.

And it works too!

For real for real

Welcome to Scotland. Proudly left of centre which means make things better for everyone. Leave no one behind. A hand up. Not a punch down. Try it. It works.

In fact, there are no leftist positions in America

My favorite thing to do when someone calls me a liberal, as if it’s a bad thing, is to look it up liberal /lĭb′ər-əl, lĭb′rəl/ adjective Favoring reform, open to new ideas, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; not bound by traditional thinking; broad-minded. synonym: broad-minded.

Understanding science is “leftist”.

#No💩

Sadly South Korea has become even more fascist, and by that I mean most of the younger generation is fascist and actively think the government is evil for not being fascist.

Ayn Rand hated the idea of Social Security, if I remember right, but then lived off survivor's benefits from her husband at the end of her life.

American media has been weaponized by perfidious, international corporate-fascist billionaires, to denounce anything as socialism if it reduces the amount of our taxes being funneled directly to their pockets for no return or reason, instead of supporting our actual population like it's supposed to.

The US has a very short track record compared to the rest of the world. If MAGA stays in power the country remaining intact to celebrate the tricentennial will be a miracle We can't be complacent or discouraged. We need to do everything we can to get MAGA and the backwards Dems out of office.

Even many of the the most ardently conservative people in Europe support universal health care. As you said, common sense.

Left in America is literally center-right in other countries... signed, someone abroad for 22 years.

While right-wing political positions today are considered Nazi and criminal in other countries.

True

Most of the world did suffer a move to the right though. But to me, it seems more like propaganda than real people thinking this way.

LOL, I love American leftist view on the rest of the World. Firstly you mean Europe, and the only real difference left in Europe today is universal health care. Besides that life is pretty much the same in Europe as America these days.

Boy..after yer crap...have to say..you are a compelling argument for after birth abortion.

True, but don't mistake official ideology for working-class reality. The ruling class frames the "center," but deep-seated material grievances exist everywhere. When capitalism fails to deliver, American workers can be won to radical ideas through struggle, regardless of how the media labels it.

And used to be common sense here. 😢

Yes, common sense, which the GOP magats not longer have.

But you (we all) need representatives that agree with that premise. Right wing/Republican/Conservative is all the same anti-worker, pro-oligarch policy dressed up in populism and culture wars. The elected officials need to KNOW their mandate. They do not.

Sort of like ISIS in the Middle East. They think anything that was created before Muhammad is somehow blasphemous and should be destroyed. They literally blew up a precious ancient city and murdered the main historian who was doing research on it.

Completely agree and been saying this for years. I worked on Carter's campaign and as a Brit based in DC was astonished at what they considered liberal attitudes.

That would sum up Canada as well.

America has the nihilist/eugenicist/religious nutter coalition party, and the party of Everyone Else. That’s it. That’s the whole political landscape

And progressive is a dirty word

And the "ism" and "ist" for me are pragmatism and pragmatist. If there is market failure, identify it. And correct it with governance. Mature. Adult. Rational. Non-ideological. Progressive.

The exact same is true in the UK, and it's getting steadily worse thanks to our lying, oligarch-serving political-media establishment.

Wild extravagances like healthcare, education, and childcare.

Some left wing positions in America are seen as right wing in other countries

seems like common sense isn't so common anymore.

You mean things like Universal health care, free college tuition, and paid parental leave? We could have nice things too. It's a matter of priority. Eisenhower, a former general, warned us about the military industrial complex.

IT'S JUST COMMON SENSE. VOTE BLUE ALWAYS.

I had a coworker from Denmark that told me there he was considered conservative but in America he’s viewed as a socialist

Ideas like the idea that the purpose of government is to serve the greater common good, not just the few.

Anything labelled "left wing" in America now is actually middle of the road in other countries and in America before Trump fascism came to power and moved everyhting to the far right.

Or even conservative...

America has never really gotten over the Joseph McCarthy era.

"America first" would be basing your policies on the "provide for the general welfare" clause in the Constitution. Right wingers act like the Constitution starts "We the Wealthy and Corporations", not "We the People". www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

Bernie Sanders’ current policies would be considered right-wing in the Netherlands.😄

Other countries don't have deep red states how do you get leftist policy when 50% of the country is red?

Very true!

There is no one of any consequence who is left of center in the US.

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As an Australian i 100% agree with this meme.

Exactly!

Who wore it better?

Fuck Populism

Great point. True!

Totally

Indeed. Due to GOP propaganda and people taking it as fact without educating themselves.

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Sorry to dissappoint but over here in germany, everyone who is against cutting the social safety net in order to subsidize the stock market gets labeled a far left extremist, just like they do on fox

Absolutely